USS Yarnall (DD-541)
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| Name: | USS Yarnall (DD-541) |
| Namesake: | John Yarnall |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco |
| Laid down: | 5 December 1942 |
| Launched: | 25 July 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 30 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 September 1958 |
| Struck: | 25 January 1974 |
| Fate: | Loaned to Taiwan, 10 June 1968 |
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 Taiwan
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| Name: | ROCS Kuen Yang (DD-19) |
| Acquired: | 10 June 1968 |
| Reclassified: | DDG-919 |
| Struck: | 16 October 1999 |
| Fate: | Stricken, 16 October 1999 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Fletcher-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,050 tons |
| Length: | 376 ft 6 in (114.7 m) |
| Beam: | 39 ft 8 in (12.1 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft 9 in (5.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: | 6500 nmi. (12,000 km) @ 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 329 |
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USS Yarnall (DD-541), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant John Yarnall (1786–1815).
Yarnall was laid down on 5 December 1942 at San Francisco, Calif., by the Bethlehem Steel Co.; launched on 25 July 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Earl Groves; and commissioned on 30 December 1943, Commander Benjamin F. Tompkins in command.
The destroyer spent the first two months of 1944 conducting her shakedown cruise and other training exercises in the San Diego operating area. She departed the west coast early in March and arrived at Oahu on the 19th. For the next 10 weeks, Yarnall carried out additional tactical exercises in the Hawaiian Islands.
On 31 May, the warship stood out of Pearl Harbor with Task Group 52.17 (TG 52.17) and set a course—via Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands—for the invasion of Saipan in the Marianas. For that operation, Yarnall was assigned to Fire Support Group 1 under Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf. When her task group began its pre-landing bombardment of Saipan on 14 June, Yarnall screened Cleveland (CL-55) and Montpelier (CL-57) and managed to add 148 rounds of her own 5 inch shells to the effort. On 15 June, the day of the assault, she continued to screen Cleveland and, on the following day, carried out her first call fire mission—a dual-purpose action to help repulse an enemy counterattack and to destroy a bothersome pillbox.
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